[ATTW-L] corn maze safety guidelines

[Dragga, Sam]

This is the time of year across the US that intrepid individuals of all ages take on the spine-chilling challenge of navigating a corn maze, and thus it is the ideal opportunity to examine how technical communicators might address this annual source of physical and emotional peril and mitigate its dangers.

At https://safeagritourism.org/walkthroughs/corn-maze/, you will find a “Corn Maze Safety Walkthrough”: this interactive series of questions and answers, using words and pictures, identifies guidelines for the cautious operation of a corn maze.

The “Integrating Safety into Agrotourism” site (https://safeagritourism.org) is a project of the National Children’s Center for Rural and Agricultural Health and Safety. It also offers safety walkthroughs for hayrides, petting zoos, inflatable rides, and play areas as well as a striking array of checklists, flyers, posters, and signs on risk-related topics (e.g., hand washing, first aid).

The materials here are ripe for analysis, discussion, testing, and revision (e.g., with a pair of exceptions, in all of the various safety walkthroughs, all pictures of people are pictures of white people).

Sam

Sam Dragga
Professor Emeritus
Texas Tech University
sam.dragga at ttu.edu
1-806-543-6099

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